Malcolm X

Black women have always been equal partners in, if not central to, the tradition of Black protest and liberation movements.

From COINTELPRO to the NSA’s surveillance program, the US Government has been keeping a close watch on the American Left for a long time.

The rise​ of mass incarceration in the early 1970s was fueled by white fear of black crime. But the fear of crime wasn’t confined to whites.

A year-long series of photographs and stories that explain the struggle between the old South and the new.

Louis Farrakhan and the Black Lives Matter protests.

It will help black Americans to recall that they have a history that transcends victimization and exclusion.

Recovering black radicalism.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

Redlining in Omaha began in the 1920s. Although outlawed in the 1960s, its effects are still present in the city's demographics.

In 1919, white Americans visited awful violence on black Americans. So black Americans decided to fight back.

The 1776 Declaration was only the first. What we learn from the long history of splinter constitutions, manifestos, and secessions that followed.

On who has had access to guns in the U.S., and what those guns have meant to the people who have owned them.

What's next for Planned Parenthood?

What gun regulations meant to the founders, and why the Black Panthers are the true pioneers of today's pro-gun movement.

How historians have understood Africa and the Black diaspora in global conversations about race and identity.

The congressman is the strongest link in American politics between the early 1960s--the glory days of the civil rights movement--and the 1990s.